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Every game is controlled by a game mod and, sometimes co-mod (in a different time zone). They do everything from counting votes to controlling when night and day start and stop. All night actions are pm'd to them, and they pm you back telling you the results of your night actions.

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To moderate a game, its probably best if you play a few here first, and go from there.

Here are the rules for different basic games of mafia.

EXTREMELY Basic mafia

Spoiler:

Their are 2 teams. Townies and Mafia.

TOWNIESThe townies have no power besides the power of deduction. The Townie wants to rid the town of the mafia scum. Every day the townie can vote for one person by posting Vote:Person x (note that this must be bolded) if you later decide to switch your vote, you do so by typing UNVOTE vote:person y (note again that this must be bolded). Townies do not know who anyone else are.

MAFIAThe mafia's team usually is about one third the size of the townies. The mafia know who each other are, and try to blend in with the townies. Their goal is to rid the town of all the townies. They can vote and unvote just like normal townies. The only difference is that at night time the mafia can communicate (via pm's to eachother) and between all of the mafia, they can decide to kill someone at night.

VOTINGNow you may be wondering what this voting does. When a player has MORE than half the votes, they are lynched. Right after the lynching happens, it becomes night time.The town wins when the last mafia member is wiped out. The mafia win when they control HALF of the votes.

Basic extra roles

Spoiler:

PROTOWN These people are trying to make the town win

CopThe cop at night can investigate one person. They are told what alignment they are.

The exception to this is if you have a special cop role. When you are not in a vanilla game, when assigned a role of cop, keep in mind that you could be any of the followingDIFFERENT COPS

Sane Cop This is a normal cop

Insane cop Always gets the WRONG result

Naive cop Always gets an innocent result

Paranoid copAlways get Guilty verdict

Crazy CopIf given a random result

DoctorThe doctor can choose one person a night to protect from a night kill. This protects the person from Mafia kill OR any other kill. Doctor may NOT protect themselves.

VigilanteThe vigilante can target one person a night to kill. They are trying to hit the mafia

RoleBlocker The RB chooses one person per night, that person's night activity is blocked

MasonsThe masons are a secret organization (pro town) that can communicate at night. Also some masons can recruit. Which means once a night they can invite somone into the masons, making their team grow. BEWARE THEY MIGHT ACCIDENTALLY INVITE A MAFIA. They win when they control half of the votes, and have no mafia infiltration.

Miller The opposite of a Godfather. A townie who, when investigated (by a sane investigation, of course) will show up as scum. Unlucky.

INDEPENDENTS These people are not pro town or pro mafia, they are out to help themselves

Jester The Jester is TRYING to get lynched. They win when they are lynched (NOT night killed)

Serial Killer The SK kills once a night, and is trying to be the last person left alive

CultThis is a group of independents who can communicate by PMs at night. This is like the scum version of the masons. They can sometimes recruit. So every night they gain a new member. Once they control half the votes they win.

PRO MAFIA These people want the mafia to win

GodfatherThis is the leader of the mafia, they appear pro town to cops

Assassins

Spoiler:

The assassin game is a little different. There are 2 basic teams, The king side and assassin's sideThe king side consists of 1 king and a few guards. While the assassin's side consists of only the assassin.

The King's side wins when the assassin kills someon that is not him. The assassin wins when he kills the king.The King knows he is the king and that is it. The gurads know who the king is (but not other guards), and the assassin knows nothing but that they are the assassin.

The assassin gets 1 suicide kill, which he uses by posting Kill:person x. When this happens the game stops, if person x is the king the assassin wins, if person x is NOT the king, the kings side wins.This suicide kill is usually used right after the assassin is lynched (he gets to use it before night happens).

Because their are no night actions, it happens instantly.NO FALSE KILLING! if someone types kill:person x when they are not sin, they will be mod killed instantly.

Crazy games

Spoiler:

These games have random tweaks done to them. For instance voting may be done differently, or new made up roles may be added etc.

Invitational games

Spoiler:

These games do not have open sign ups. You must be invited to play. Game modes vary.

Kingmaker

Spoiler:

As opposed to having the players vote for whom to lynch, one townie (the Kingmaker) is given the power to choose who will have the power to execute the choice for the day. The person he chooses (the King) is not guaranteed to be pro-town, so things can get pretty interesting.

Lights Out

Spoiler:

Instead of sequentially lynching only one person per day, the town continues to lynch until they decide the time is right to stop. Roles are still not revealed until the next day. Often (but not always, especially if there are other variations), this mode gives extra killing powers to the mafia to keep the town scared of "turning off the lights".

the LINGO

LYLO = Lynch or lose. This means that unless the town lynch a mafia, they will lose during the night.WIFOM = Wine in front of me. This is kinda like a bluff. This comes from the princess bride

Vizzini wrote:But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.

The first dude wrote:Oh, I didn't see that. But seriously, I wouldn't be so obvious about it if I were scum, would I?

The persistently suspicious chick wrote:Perhaps you're scum trying to convince me you're not scum by saying something so blatantly scummy that no one who is actually scum would be dumb enough to say it.

Now confused (noob) dude wrote:Wait, what?

The smugly suspicious chick wrote:WIFOM.Vote: That Dude

EBWOP = Edit by way of post. Because you can not edit posts, you can just type this and double post to clarify your previous post.

OMGUS = OH MY GOD YOU SUCK! This is usually said when the following happens. Person x votes for person y. Person Y then yells OMGUS and votes for person x.Hammer= This is the last person who votes for a lynch, who thereby reaches a majority. Or it can be an adjective describing that person or that vote. Also, the action of posting the hammer vote.Nickrole= This is a game where a your role is based on your name.Babam= A good person, hilarious person to play with. Tried to do a crazy game the first time he modded... and failed. He joke about him all the time (or used to, he kinda retired). We actually have made a few roles called "The babam". Usually negative, you do not want to be called babam.

Q&A with crucialityfactor!!

crucialityfactor wrote:Q:How long do days and nights last?A:Lengths of days/night depend on how active the players are. It's usually at least 2-3 days for each, but could be as short as 12 hours. Could be as long as a week for a day at the extreme.

Q:How do I sign up for a game?A:There's the Mafia Discussion thread where signups start, usually they are finalized in the game thread itself.

Q:How long do games last?A:I guess a few months for longest? There are mini-games as well that are supposed to have 24 hour days and nights, those last about a week or two.

Q: At the end of a game, do we get to find out what happened?A:Usually the mod will post the role list in the thread at the end and people will discuss their roles.This depends on who the mod is, and if they are lazy. Usually the mod will post their cheat sheet. And tell you humorous parts of the game. Sometimes it is up to the players to decide what they want answers to.

That is all for now. If you have any questions, feel free to PM most of the regualars. Or jump onto the IRC channel #xkcdmafia (on irc.foonetic.net).

A quick run down on how this subforum works (in regards to creating a game):

1) A mod has an idea for a game, and posts his idea in the Discussion thread.2) If enough people like the idea (up to the mod if they think they have enough people backing it... use common sense here please) AND there is a gap in the queue, they post in the pre-signups thread with a brief description, game size, and title for the game.3) Once a game of the same size finishes, the mod sends it to the signups thread.4) When the signups for a game are done, and a game of the same size has ended, the mod starts the game with a new thread!

GOOD LUCK

Last edited by jestingrabbit on Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:56 am UTC, edited 19 times in total.
Reason:Putting some rules in the Mafia subforum.

michaelandjimi wrote:Oh Mr GojoeI won't make fun of your mojo.Though in this fora I serenade youI really only do it to aid you.*Various positive comments on your masculinityThat continue on into infinity*

This variation is all logic based. Everyone is a cop except for one (who is a mafia). The twist is that the cops do not always get the right results. Usually played in IRC

DIFFERENT COPS

Sane Cop This is a normal cop

Insane cop Always gets the WRONG result

Naive cop Always gets an innocent result

Paranoid copAlways get Guilty verdict

Crazy CopIf given a random result

This game usually starts on night 0, so the cops can get their results, the mafia do NOT get a night kill on night 0.The game usually goes no lynch for everyday until the last possible day. So you have the most amount of information to make the lynch.

Pick your poison (pyp)

Spoiler:

This is a crazy game. At the start of the game all players send in a random name (like THE COW OF DESTINY)and the mod then chooses what that role does (like he could make the cow of destiny able to stampede, which allows him to do a one shot day kill)This game is very chaotic. This is usually played in IRC, first game for forum is coming up.

King Maker

Spoiler:

This game is similar to a normal mafia game, with a twist. No one votes. There is a KINGMAKER. The kingmaker everyday chooses a person who by themselves decide who is going to be lynched. They can choose to go with or against what the public thinks.

Lights out

Spoiler:

This game is like a normal game of mafia. The twist is that the town can continue to lynch as many times before night is declared. If the town wants to lynch everyone before night happens, they can. Wins can not happen until night time is declared.

The pit

Spoiler:

This game is a little complicated. Every person has 3 extra things. 1 is either Rock Paper or Scissors. The second is a fighting number (1-10). And a potion (either acidic (lowers target fighting number), strength(adds to your fighting number) or cleric (raises the fighting number even more).

The players then vote for a person to go into the pit (just like voting for a lynch), the second person is chosen by a player (a role called the king). This person is then put up against each other, The mod first compares the RPS (rock paper scissors) this then adds to the winners fighting number. At the end the player with the highest fighting number wins.

So basically, just because you are voted in the pit, if your fighting number is higher then the other, you win, the other person dies.

Roles are changed, to a fighting theme, which affect fighting numbers, and who fights.

Various strategies that are well known.

Follow the cop

Spoiler:

This is when one player role claims cop, and then if no one counter claims, everyone just trusts him. THIS IS BAD, BUT HAPPENS ALL THE BLOODY TIME! The problem is that this paints a HUGE target onto this person's head

Double claim

Spoiler:

When a double claim happens (when 2 people claim to be the same thing) we generally lynch one of them, if they are town, we then lynch the other one. This is a very sacrificial way of doing things. Using logic is a much better way to get past this. Like seeing who is being more suspicious

Gojoe's false claim

Spoiler:

Everyone always gives false role claims a bad connotation. Gojoe's false role claim is a good one! It is when a vanilla townie claims to be a power role. This does a few things. First off if no one counter claims, the mafia will focus on trying to kill off a vanilla townie (because they think they are a power role). The person that does a Gojoe should then try to figure out who actually has the role they are claiming to have, so that they can back them up.

WIFOMIFOYIFOM

Spoiler:

Wine in front of me in front of you in front of me. This is when you claim that everything that is going on is clearly WIFOM. Or when something looks like WIFOM, it could be WIFOMIFOY, and then again that could be WIFOMIFOYIFM.... etc

Mafia helping the town

Spoiler:

This is when the main person leading the investigations on people (eg writing the most (im looking at you cf)) is actually mafia. This happens all the time. The only problem is that if you lynch this person, sometimes, the game stops.

Mafia WIFOM

Spoiler:

This is when the mafia "jokingly"says they are mafia, assuming you will think it is WIFOM. Be wary of jokes that may not be jokes.

Babam

Spoiler:

Accidentally mis read pm's and then correct yourself... This is not a good strategy, I am going to assume baba simply can not read... BABAM CAN NEVER EVER MOD!

Muddy waters

Spoiler:

This is a strategy where the first day, you have to pretty much kill someone who causes confusion. So even if you hit a townie, you at least get rid of someone that causes confusion no matter what role they are. This is a pessimistic way of looking at things, and a bit unfair on the player who gets this done to them. (az001 and I like to joke around....) use sparingly

STOP LURKING

Spoiler:

This is the strategy that the game will stop going forward if we kill off the active people, so we do the opposite. Lynch the bloody lurkers! MaJ has posted a summary here as to why this is a viable solution.

FoS

Spoiler:

Finger of suspicion. It is a way of saying who you think is the most suspicion. It does NOT count as a vote, but it does let other players know who you think is suspicious.

michaelandjimi wrote:Oh Mr GojoeI won't make fun of your mojo.Though in this fora I serenade youI really only do it to aid you.*Various positive comments on your masculinityThat continue on into infinity*

michaelandjimi wrote:Oh Mr GojoeI won't make fun of your mojo.Though in this fora I serenade youI really only do it to aid you.*Various positive comments on your masculinityThat continue on into infinity*

Added those in, I think that this thread might do for basic strategy. I will get around to adding that tomorrow.

michaelandjimi wrote:Oh Mr GojoeI won't make fun of your mojo.Though in this fora I serenade youI really only do it to aid you.*Various positive comments on your masculinityThat continue on into infinity*

michaelandjimi wrote:Oh Mr GojoeI won't make fun of your mojo.Though in this fora I serenade youI really only do it to aid you.*Various positive comments on your masculinityThat continue on into infinity*

OK, second post is now strategy guide. And has been fleshed out a bit.

michaelandjimi wrote:Oh Mr GojoeI won't make fun of your mojo.Though in this fora I serenade youI really only do it to aid you.*Various positive comments on your masculinityThat continue on into infinity*

Kingmaker- As opposed to having the players vote for whom to lynch, one townie (the Kingmaker) is given the power to choose who will have the power to execute the choice for the day. The person he chooses (the King) is not guaranteed to be pro-town, so things can get pretty interesting.

Lights Out- Instead of sequentially lynching only one person per day, the town continues to lynch until they decide the time is right to stop. Roles are still not revealed until the next day. Often (but not always, especially if there are other variations), this mode gives extra killing powers to the mafia to keep the town scared of "turning off the lights".

Accidentally mis read pm's and then correct yourself... This is not a good strategy, I am going to assume baba simply can not read... BABAM CAN NEVER EVER MOD!

I did a similar thing in IRL Mafia once. It was a cards-based one, and I forgot which card meant Mafia. I was town, but I thought I was Mafia, and so stuck my head up when it was Mafia-heads-up time. I could only see one other person with their head up, and so assumed he was the other, and he did the same with me. Turns out that for basically the entire game, the other real Mafia guy was behind me, and couldn't say anything because that would blow his cover.

michaelandjimi wrote:Oh Mr GojoeI won't make fun of your mojo.Though in this fora I serenade youI really only do it to aid you.*Various positive comments on your masculinityThat continue on into infinity*

Muddying waters isn't just killing confusing players day 1. In my understanding, muddying the waters is creating large lists of possibilities. Possible motives for actions, possible conclusions from analysis, possible interpretations of posts, etc. in order to confuse and/or obfuscate the truth. This is opposed to leading a lynch by presenting a lot of analysis/interpretations leading to a specific conclusion, or attempting to clarify an issue by presenting a set of possibilities and striking out those perceived unlikely (which can actually be used when leading a lynch).

What you've provided is less a description of the strategy and more a statement that people get killed for it.

I have decided against adding Vox's games. Because they are not used very often, the same reason the rookie game style of game (which I am not calling the pit) is not up there If you really think they should be there, PM me (do not argue on this thread, as that is not what it is here for)

michaelandjimi wrote:Oh Mr GojoeI won't make fun of your mojo.Though in this fora I serenade youI really only do it to aid you.*Various positive comments on your masculinityThat continue on into infinity*

Ok, I am going to make a new topic that is more advanced games. And I will split my posts between them. Sound good?

michaelandjimi wrote:Oh Mr GojoeI won't make fun of your mojo.Though in this fora I serenade youI really only do it to aid you.*Various positive comments on your masculinityThat continue on into infinity*

This variation is all logic based. Everyone is a cop except for one (who is a mafia). The twist is that the cops do not always get the right results. Usually played in IRC

DIFFERENT COPS

Sane Cop This is a normal cop

Insane cop Always gets the WRONG result

Naive cop Always gets an innocent result

Paranoid copAlways get Guilty verdict

Crazy CopIf given a random result

This game usually starts on night 0, so the cops can get their results, the mafia do NOT get a night kill on night 0.The game usually goes no lynch for everyday until the last possible day. So you have the most amount of information to make the lynch.

Pick your poison (pyp)

Spoiler:

This is a crazy game. At the start of the game all players send in a random name (like THE COW OF DESTINY)and the mod then chooses what that role does (like he could make the cow of destiny able to stampede, which allows him to do a one shot day kill)This game is very chaotic. This is usually played in IRC, first game for forum is coming up.

King Maker

Spoiler:

This game is similar to a normal mafia game, with a twist. No one votes. There is a KINGMAKER. The kingmaker everyday chooses a person who by themselves decide who is going to be lynched. They can choose to go with or against what the public thinks.

Lights out

Spoiler:

This game is like a normal game of mafia. The twist is that the town can continue to lynch as many times before night is declared. If the town wants to lynch everyone before night happens, they can. Wins can not happen until night time is declared.

The pit

Spoiler:

This game is a little complicated. Every person has 3 extra things. 1 is either Rock Paper or Scissors. The second is a fighting number (1-10). And a potion (either acidic (lowers target fighting number), strength(adds to your fighting number) or cleric (raises the fighting number even more).

The players then vote for a person to go into the pit (just like voting for a lynch), the second person is chosen by a player (a role called the king). This person is then put up against each other, The mod first compares the RPS (rock paper scissors) this then adds to the winners fighting number. At the end the player with the highest fighting number wins.

So basically, just because you are voted in the pit, if your fighting number is higher then the other, you win, the other person dies.

Roles are changed, to a fighting theme, which affect fighting numbers, and who fights.

michaelandjimi wrote:Oh Mr GojoeI won't make fun of your mojo.Though in this fora I serenade youI really only do it to aid you.*Various positive comments on your masculinityThat continue on into infinity*

michaelandjimi wrote:Oh Mr GojoeI won't make fun of your mojo.Though in this fora I serenade youI really only do it to aid you.*Various positive comments on your masculinityThat continue on into infinity*

Sorry, I didn't say anything, I put it into my description when he asked... ages ago

michaelandjimi wrote:Oh Mr GojoeI won't make fun of your mojo.Though in this fora I serenade youI really only do it to aid you.*Various positive comments on your masculinityThat continue on into infinity*